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Victory for Iván Armas by easily surpassing Miguel Angel Cabral

Victory for Iván Armas by easily surpassing Miguel Angel Cabral

Maspalomas24h Sunday, November 12, 2023

The San Bartolomé de Tirajana Climb occupied the mountainous afternoon of the Maspalomas Team, with more people and good ambient temperatures to enjoy inside and outside the racing cars. A ramp that was better for the Porsche 911 driver, who won the two qualifying rounds and also lowered his own time by three tenths of a second, leaving his best time in the second official race with 2.39,333, which gave a difference in his favor of 2,4 seconds over Miguel Angel Cabral, who in the second race had some problem with the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo official 2.41,754.

 

 

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In this way, Iván Armas got even in San Bartolomé and added the extra points for the Las Palmas Mountain Championship thanks to the 1,5 coefficient of the afternoon climb. A contest that still has the Moya Climb scheduled for Sunday, December 3.

 

The third step of the final podium was repeated by Telden's José Calderín, who was once again superb with the "sopillo", setting an exceptional record of 2.50,107 for the Renault 5 GT Turbo, finally managing to keep the SEAT within 1,8 seconds. León de Juany Jorge, fourth overall. Gustavo Bolaños qualified next with his Mitsubishi Lancer Evo and was followed in the general classification by Víctor Martín from Tenerife with the León Cupra and seventh by Juan Betancort with the Toyota Corolla Twin Can, a classification that is difficult to overcome with the competition present on the climb.

 

Closing the "top-ten" group were Iván Armas with the Saxo, first in the FALP Promotion Trophy and Mario Suárez, also very well with the boosted Citroen AX, eighth and ninth respectively. Cristian Aday Pérez's Nissan Micra rose to that final tenth place.

 

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In Regularidad Sport, the team formed by Ayoze Castellano-Eduardo Martín repeated their victory in this test with the SEAT 124, while the other two places on the podium were exchanged between Javier Marrero-Isabel García, now second in the high-medium general classification, while the Third step would be for Roberto and Tania García. Fontanilla-Emperador won again in medium low and Pablo and Celeste Díaz in Trofeo 50.

 

At 17 p.m. this second climb concludes without any notable incidents and immediately afterwards the trophy presentation ceremony in the Plaza de Tunte, with the presence of the councilors of San Bartolomé Eduardo Armas and Ruyman Cardoso, the councilor of San Bartolomé excusing their absence for personal reasons. Sports Ramón Suárez. On the sporting side, the president of the FALP Miguel Angel Domínguez and the director of the organization of the Maspalomas Escudería, Acaymo Reyes.

 

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